Common Definitions Used in Poultry Bill: The beak of duck. | Agriculture Exams Library
Common Definitions Used in Poultry
Bill: The beak of duck.
Broiler / Fryer: It is a bird of about 8 weeks of age of either sex (straight-run chicks) with an average body weight of 1.5 to 2.0 kg with a flexible breast bone cartilage, pliable and tender meat.
Brooder: A metallic or wooden equipment used for artificial brooding of baby chicks by supplying the necessary heat.
Candling: The process of visual examination of an intact egg, by holding between the eye and a lighted candle or other source of light to determine the interior quality. shell soundness or stage of embryonic development.
Capon: Surgically castrated male under 10 months of age.
Clutch: Eggs laying by a hen on consecutive days without break are referred as "Clutch'.
Cull: Unproductive hen
Culling: Elimination of unproductive or undesirable bird.
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Debeaking / Beak trimming: Removal of a portion of beak. Desi fowl: Indigenous or native fowl.
Desnooding: Removal of snood in turkeys.
Down time: Period between culling of one batch and introduction of new batch of birds in the shed
Dubbing: The process of removal of comb and wattles at day-old age with the help of scissors.
Egg tooth: Small horny protrusion on the tip of chick's beak used to pip the egg shell when hatching. It drops off soon after chicks escape from the egg
Green Duck: It is a duckling, which is grown rapidly and marketed from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
Hatchery: A building where incubators are kept for hatching purpose. Layer. A mature female fowl kept for egg laying purpose.
Livability: Ability of individual bird to live and remain vigorous and productive. Moulting: Molting is the act or process of shedding and renewing feathers.
Pause: Interval between clutches
Photoperiod: Period of illumination by both natural and artificial means.
Pipping: The act of pecking the shell and shell membrane by the chick in order to break the shell and hatch out of the shell.
Roaster: A broiler grown upto the age of 9-11 weeks to a body weight of 2.5 to 3.0 kg.
Rock Cornish game / Cornish game hen: It is nothing but a broiler of either sex grown upto 5- 6 weeks of age.
Snood: A small muscular structure hanging from the base of beak in turkeys is called "Snood"
